Section: US & Canada

(ABOARD A U.S. GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cast the poisoning of an ex-spy in Britain as part of a “certain unleashing of activity” by Russia that the United States is struggling to understand. He warned that the poisoning would “certainly trigger a response.” Tillerson, echoing the British government’s...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took a bold stance at odds with the White House Monday, specifically pointing a finger at Russia for the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in the UK last week. “This is a really egregious act. It appears that it clearly came from Russia,” Tillerson said in a statement. “Whether it...

Robert Bartley, the late editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, was a free trade zealot who for decades championed a five-word amendment to the Constitution: “There shall be open borders.” Bartley accepted what the erasure of America’s borders and an endless influx or foreign peoples and goods would mean for his country. Said...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is backing up British Prime Minister Theresa May’s assertion that Russia is behind the attack on a former Russian spy in England, saying it certainly “will trigger a response.” “This is a really egregious act. It appears that it clearly came from Russia,” Tillerson said Monday en route to Cape Verde....

Everyone remembers last month’s implosion of Republican National Committee finance chair Steve Wynn, who resigned due to what he called “an avalanche of negative publicity” over sexual harassment charges. Well, now two other gents on the RNC finance leadership team are embroiled in some legal trouble of their own: Michael Cohen, Donald...

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, left, and Alexander Boroda, head of the Federation of Jewish Communities, during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Dec. 28, 2016. (Alexei Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images) (JTA) — When Boruch Gorin, a well-known rabbi in Moscow, traveled for the first time from Russia...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is suggesting that Jews, Ukrainians or Tatars might have meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but again is rejecting Kremlin interference. In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News that aired Sunday, Putin dismissed the conclusion of the U.S. intelligence community that he ordered a campaign to...

On Monday, British Prime Minister Theresa May spoke before Parliament on the attack that left at least two people in the UK hospitalized from exposure to a toxin. May left no doubt that she was taking this extremely seriously: It is now clear that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by...

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Credit: Getty/Alexey Nikolsky) Denying any involvement with the 2016 U.S. election, Russian President Vladimir Putin has come under fire after suggesting any alleged meddling could have been carried out by Russian Jews. Putin claimed election interference could have come from anyone — even from people living...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in a new documentary that he approved of a plan to shoot down a hijacked passenger jet four years ago. A Ukrainian man tried to hijack a Turkey-bound flight and demanded that it go to Sochi as the Winter Olympics were about to start there in February 2014. The Sochi Games were Putin’s pet project...